Work/Travail/Arbeid at MoMA, a video by Gerard-Jan Claes & Olivia Rochette

What would it mean for choreography to perform as an exhibition? This question was the point of departure for Work/Travail/Arbeid. In response, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker reimagined her piece Vortex Temporum for the radically different temporal, spatial, and perceptual conditions of a museum-like environment. The choreographer did not simply bring a dance performance into a new kind of space, but rethought it as a nine weeks long exhibition, continuously accessible to the public. The original choreography made for the condensed time and space of a stage performance was thus entirely reinvented so as to extend itself across a new time and space. This project transformed the conditions that have long been essential to dance and gave a new form to the rigorous choreographic writing for which De Keersmaeker is known.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Work/Travail/Arbeid
March 29–April 2, 2017
The Museum of Modern Art

Concept & choreography
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Originally curated by
Elena Filipovic

Artistic Consultant
Ann Veronica Janssens

Dramaturgy
Bojana Cvejić

Artistic assistant
Femke Gyselinck

Danced by Boštjan Antončič, Frank Gizycki, Carlos Garbin, Marie Goudot, Cynthia Loemij, Sarah Ludi, Julien Monty, Michaël Pomero, Camille Prieux, Gabriel Schenker, Igor Shyshko, Denis Terrasse, Thomas Vantuycom, Samantha van Wissen

Musicians
Ictus

Music director
Georges-Elie Octors
Piano
Jean-Luc Plouvier
Flute
Chryssi Dimitriou
Clarinet
Dirk Descheemaeker
Violin
Igor Semenoff
Viola
Jeroen Robbrecht
Cello
Geert De Bièvre

Music
Vortex Temporum, Gérard Grisey (1996)

Costumes
Anne-Catherine Kunz

Technical Direction
Joris Erven

Sound engineer
Alexandre Fostier

Technician
Michael Smets

Artistic Coordination & Planning
Anne Van Aerschot

Costumes Coordination
Heide Vanderieck

The artist gratefully acknowledges WIELS Contemporary Art Centre and Rosas for initiating Work/Travail/Arbeid, which has been made possible with the support of De Munt/La Monnaie, BOZAR - Centre For Fine Arts, Kaaitheater, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Ictus, BNP Paribas Fortis, Fondation BNP Paribas, and Rolex Institute.


The exhibition is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Organized by Ana Janevski, Associate Curator, with Martha Joseph, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art; produced by Lizzie Gorfaine, Performance Producer, with Kate Scherer, Assistant Performance Coordinator.
Generous funding for the exhibition is provided by The Modern Women’s Fund.

Additional support is provided by the Annual Exhibition Fund.

The MoMA presentation is organized in collaboration with Rosas, Ictus, and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre.